Brake-beam hanger.



H. c. HARHAGIN.

BRAKE BEAM HANGER.

APPLICATlON FILED'LULY 6, I915.

Patented Feb. 8, 1916.

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each of the column casting;

mrns HUGH C. HABBAG-IH, OF IL'IQ'N'EREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA,

Specification ciQLettcrs Patent.

Application To all whom it may concern Be it known that I. HUGH Citron Himm- GIN, a subject of the King of Great Britain and resident of the city of Montreal,

Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Brake-Beam Hangers; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and

at brake-beam hanger bracket with a slot having a distorted opening; lending thereto for the insertion of the hanger. For full comprehension, however, of my invention reference should he hud to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specificet' an in which similar reference characters indicate the same parts and wherein:

Figure 1 is :1- perspective View of it portion of a truck and illustrating my jinproved brnkebemn hanger bracket; and Figs. 2 and 3 are face YieWs illustrating the mode'of applyiim the hunger to the bracket. Fig. at is an one View oi. the brake beznn bracket. v

In the. drawings a. port-ion of :1 Wheel truck is shown and incl'xides one of the upright column castings 3 which are located at the sides of the truck and hetveeo' the wheels 4, being bolted or otherwise suitnhly scoured at top and bottom to the side frame hers 5 of the truck.

The brake shoes are indicated. at 6, the beams at 7 and the hangers a 8 and as usual "has bracket extension 9 thereon new the {0 end which is formed for the attachmen thereto 0? :1 hanger 8, it being to this connection between. the lrncket 9 and hang: ,thet my invention specifically applies. ine? 'lirockct arm is preferablycast in one with the cclunm and extends in the form of? a web 3 inwardly therefrom transversely of tl. adjacent tending only from the top and for side hub with respect to the adjacent whee provide a space betweentne inner side 0 column and opposing end; of the in o The brake beam suspended Patented Feb. 8, 1916.,

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lower end of hanger 8, the upper end of the latte' "i eccon'nnodnted in opening ii. and supported by different arrangements have been to retain the hanger in the ooening, such have presented diliiculty of. necessitoting the use of segarzite retaining means such as nuts, pins and the like and to avoid the resultant disadvantages l have constructed the opening 11 in the form of an open slot the near or that s ide of ike hub facing the adjacent Wheel, such slot being outwardly flared and slightly upwardly in clined and the lips of some having tilting lugs forint thereon, such lugs being" spaced longitudunglly opcnino and those of one lip spaced outwardly i'rom the opposite ip so thntn rlistorteclwm puth lending to the opening is pres nted; the spacing preferehly heir." such that month is but slightly la r then the thiclc ness of the mate i.

The hanger I prefer t I employ oil? rec tzngulnr shape and closed or for all pram ticahle purposes endless and in pplying some to the bracket it is inserted e deWise until obstructed by one of the lugs 91,2 and then, following the distorted mouth; mrned {may from such obstructing lug mill "moved further inward end in this manner tin circled past the lugs (Figs. fiend and positioned in opening 11 with'il's sides at the ends of the huh 10.

When the flfiete device is assembled the downWsrdly' extending position of the hanger prei cnts ncci ntnl movement of some to a eiitent sutlicient to cause the hitter to more t one'h the distorted. slot While lugs 12 p0, tively prevent a forward disengngementjol the lnmgsr from the bracket 3 the OljStlllCtiDD pie the bracket ftll'il and While iterdigithe opposite sides of the opening 11" converge outvmrdly the latter to prescntwedging' surfaces restricting outward movement oi the positioned hanger and thus obviating excessive shaking of some.

What 1' claim is as follows: 1. In a. cur a. trncl-t. brake beam, 2:. brill-(e heel-n1 hunger a bracket presenting an opening for the reception of the he nger such o 'iening have u distorted slot leading thereto through which the hanger-1s inserted.

2. Ina car, a truck, a brake beam, a brake beam hanger, a bracket presenting an opening for the reception of the hanger, such opening having a slot leading thereto and I '8 spaced lugs upon thelips of the slot.

Ina car, a truck includinga column casting, a brake beam, a brake beam ham 1', 21 a bracket arm formed with and exten inwardly from the casting, a hub f at the end of the arm, such hub having Ill opening formed therethrough for the reception of the brake beam hanger andpl|t-- 2t senting a slot leadin to such opening and spaced and interdigitating lugs u on the lips of said slot forming a distorte mouth through which the ban r is inserted. 1

In testimony Whereo ,I have signed my 30 name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses. t

. v HUGH C. HARRAGIN.

Witnesses:

STANLEY C. KING, A. R. Evans. 

